Wrapped In Grey Lyrics - Nonsuch - Xtc

Some folks see the world as a stone 

Concrete daubed in dull monotone 

Your heart is the big box of paints 

And others, the canvas we're dealt 

Your heart is the big box of paints 

How colored the flowers all smelled 

As they huddled there, in petaled prayer 

They told me this, as I knelt there 

Awaken you dreamers 

Adrift in your beds 

Balloons and streamers 

Decorate the inside of your heads 

Please let some out 

Do it today 

But don't let the loveless ones sell you 

A world wrapped in grey 

Some folks pull this life like a weight 

Drab and dragging dreams made of slate 

Your heart is the big box of paints 

And others, the canvas we're dealt 

Your heart is the big box of paints 

Just think how the old masters felt, they call 

Awaken you dreamers 

Asleep at your desks 

Parrots and lemurs 

Populate your unconscious grotesques 

Please let some out 

Do it today 

But don't let the loveless ones sell you 

A world wrapped in grey